In
1967, the Human Beingz laid down such a tight, hard-groovinâ version
of The Isley Brothers' âNobody But Meâ
that it took weeks for most people to realize that the track was actually
performed by a group of white guys from Youngstown, Ohio. In the meantime,
intensive airplay on black R&B stations had helped break the record.
Human BeinzFormed
in 1965 as The Human Beingz, they debuted on Gateway Records in February
1966 with a version of 'Gloria', but The Shadows Of Knight had just
beaten them to the punch. During the next year or so, subsequent singles
for small labels and an exciting live show helped establish the band's
reputation. A traveling record exec was tipped off about them by a Youngstown
record store clerk, and after checking them out at a local club called
Mickey's Bar, he signed them to Capitol in mid-'67. Human
Beinz

Nobody
But Me was released in September of that year, at which time
the group was pissed off to discover that, on the contract, Capitol
had misspelled their name as Beinz -- as in the hippie term âbe-in.â
The new spelling stuck for their recording career, but in Youngstown,
where they'd always been the biggest band in town, they stood staunchly
by their original Beingz moniker. Human
Beinz

Their
records took off in Japan and in 1969
they toured Japan, where two albums were released, including a rare
live recording. They had 3 hits in Japan andthey
were the first band to record and put out a "Live
in Japan"
Album; complete with a picture of the Human Beinz standing on stage
at Shibuya Public
Hall.
Human
Beinz